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FLEFF Begins April 1

Running from Monday to Sunday, April 1 – 7, Ithaca College’s Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival 2013 (FLEFF) will offer forums, music, art, films and multimedia events focused on the theme of “Mobilities.” Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, FLEFF 2013 will take place on the Ithaca College campus and Cinemapolis downtown.

“FLEFF 2013 promises to be powerful display of international cinema, new media, music and writing,” said Patricia R. Zimmermann, professor of screen studies at Ithaca College and, with professor of politics Tom Shevory, FLEFF co-director. “This year, FLEFF’s downtown screenings will offer more films from more countries with more directors and more distributors than we’ve done in previous years. We can also promise more post-screening conversations of significance, a FLEFF trademark.”

“In addition to films from Palestine, France, Korea, China, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Russia and Tibet, we’ve booked a staggering array of film forms and styles ranging from art films and commercial narratives to documentaries, shorts and experimental works,” Shevory added. “That kind of heterogeneous program strategy is a FLEFF signature.”

Most of the screenings will take place at Cinemapolis in downtown Ithaca. On campus, the events will include forums, lectures, labs, discussions and special programs with new media artists, scholars and activists.

Campus events are free and open to the public. The film screenings at Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green Street, will require admission fees. Festival five passes are $40, student passes are $30. Ithaca College students may purchase festival passes at the Ithaca College bookstore for $20. Individual tickets are $9.50. Offered as part of FLEFF’s partnership with the nonprofit 7th Art Corporation, the downtown screening will take place from April 4 to 7.

Launched in 1997 as an outreach project from Cornell University’s Center for the Environment, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival was moved permanently to Ithaca College in 2005. It is housed in the Office of the Provost as a program to link intellectual inquiry and debate to larger global issues.